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"The Nintendo 64 marked its 30th birthday this past June, and yet despite its age, work on the platform has seen a resurgence over the last decade. The N64’s passionate fan community of software developers, hardware hackers, and reverse engineers have made improvements to many aspects of the system. They’ve added digital video output, flash-based cartridges, new and improved emulators, modern development toolchains, complete console hardware reimplementations (plural!), and whole new games. Much of their work is also being done in an open-source fashion. I, along with contributions from others, have been attempting to catalog these advancements at n64.dev, but with the current state of things moving so quickly, it can be hard to keep up. So, as of this post, here is a big picture of where development on the N64 stands right now."

"Video output on the N64 is analog composite (the yellow RCA connector), which produces a smeary and low-resolution picture by today’s high-def standards. CRT TVs also display input imperfectly, with interlaced scan-lines, phosphor persistence, and so on. Developers often took advantage of these limitations by making deliberate artistic choices that looked good on TVs of the time. However, modern TVs largely1 show the exact signal provided, and upscaling composite video to an HDTV exposes all the previously concealed flaws."

"Various RGB mods mods have been available for some time which let you extract RGB video from the N64. While still analog, RGB video is clearer than composite by virtue of spreading picture information across three signal lines instead of one."

"Better still, there have also been a series of mods that tap into the digital video lines on the N64 motherboard and then convert the signals to HDMI. UltraHDMI, 64HD, N64Digital, and most recently (and most-available), the PixelFX Retro GEM, all produce HDMI video output directly from the N64’s graphics chip, entirely bypassing the analog conversion step, while still offering scaling and interlacing modes to mimic the look of CRTs. Installation can be tricky because of the fine pitch of the solder points involved, but having a built-in HDMI port on a classic console is convenient for playing and capturing, and the video output looks as good as it possibly can because of the minimal amount of conversion steps involved."

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